FOUR
Suna: Part IV
"We have got company, Pein-sama." Zetsu said.
"Who is it?" The voice called out.
"It looks like it's the Leaf Ninja and the Sand Ninja that Naruto, Deidara and Sasori fought in the Sand village," Zetsu replied.
"Those little fuckers," Deidara commented.
"Quiet," Pein replied.
"Let me go, Pein-sama" Deidara said, "I didn't have enough fun last time."
"Itachi should go!" Kisame laughed.
"Hm," the Uchiha replied with indifference.
"I should go. I have the most chakra to spare so I will be able to stall them more. Plus I can talk about I survived. I am sure they would love to know," Naruto explained with a smirk.
"Naruto, you may go and stall them. We have about 6 hours left until the Ichibi is fully sealed," The voice called out.
"Yes sir," Naruto said, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu."
Naruto made the correct hand symbol and a shadow clone appeared, "I will send my Shadow clone and I will remain here to finished the sealing. I will send him with less the half of my remaining chakra. That should be more than enough."
The shadow clone jumped off the finger, leaving the real Naruto on the statue.
"Good, now go," the voice called out.
000
"We should be arriving soon." Kakashi said as he and the rest of the ninja jumped through the forest, "Neji, Hinata, check up ahead and make sure we aren't running into any trouble."
Neji and Hinata nodded.
"Byakugan!" they both exclaimed. The veins on the sides of their face became visible as their Kekki Genkai activated.
"Stop! " Neji and Hinata yelled after a few moments. They both landed on the same tree branch in a crouched position.
Everyone slammed on their brakes and landed on various tree branches looking a Neji and Hinata.
"What is it Neji?" Gai asked.
"We have got company about half a mile a head," Neji stated still looking ahead.
"Who is it?" Kakashi asked.
"Naruto," Neji replied simply almost with a slight growl.
"Well, maybe we can get a few answers," Shikamaru muttered from behind.
"Maybe, but that's not our main goal right now, Shikamaru. As much as we want answers we need to get Gaara back first," Sakura said, as she was the only one who heard what Shikamaru muttered.
"There is no time to waste. Lets go," Kankuro said getting to his feet from the crouching position they were all in.
Everyone followed Kankuro and sped forward, until they reached the outskirts of a large field.
On the other side of the field is where Naruto stood with one of his swords in his hand leaning up against a tree. Kakashi stopped on a tree branch and held up his indicating for every to stop as well.
"Looks like they only sent Naruto to stop us," Sakura said as she stopped on the same branch as Kakashi.
"Probably not stop us but rather delay us," Shikamaru said as he landed on other side of Kakashi.
"He's right. They know there are 16 of us and only one of him. Unless they really believe that Naruto is strong enough to take down 16 Jonin level Ninja, which I doubt he can," Kakashi said staring a head at Naruto. But who knows maybe he will surprise us.
"Hmm," Sakura said. "That means they are close to finishing if they are only trying to delay us."
"Either that or they are really confident in his abilities," Asuma thought out loud.
Kakashi just nodded. The Leaf Ninja stared ahead at Naruto, who had sheathed his sword. Then another member crawled up from the ground. It was the Black and White man with the plant surrounding him. It looked like they were talking about something.
"That's the man we saw when we retrieved Naruto's 'body'" Kiba said.
"That's right," Kakashi agreed narrowing his eyes, "I wonder what they are talking about?"
Shikamaru shook his head indicating that he didn't know.
Soon the plant man disappeared and Naruto had taken out two scrolls and placed them perpendicular to each other on the ground in front of him as he crouched down on one knee. Naruto then made several hand signs then placed his hands on top of each other on the center of the two scrolls.
"What's he doing?" Choji questioned narrowing his eyes at the blond across the field.
When Naruto removed his hands, a black book appeared. Then Naruto re-rolled the scrolls and put them away. He stood up with the book in his hand
"Neji, can you see what that book is?" Asuma asked as he glanced over at Neji.
Neji nodded "Byakugan!"
Neji looked to see what the book was, and what he saw shocked him.
"It's… a…" Neji started.
"A… what?" Gai prompted.
"A Bingo book," Neji finished.
000
Naruto stood on the outskirts of a large field leaning up against a tree. He was sharping the one Kiba he had (A/N Kiba- literal meaning is Fang. It's a pair of swords that was originally used by one of the seven swordsmen of the Mist for lighting style users. Not to be confused with Kiba Inuzuka). Shikamaru had the other one.
Maybe I will be able to retrieve it from Shikamaru. I can hardly use any of my Raiton without the pair.
Naruto then put his swords away when he felt Zetsu about to appear.
"Naruto…" Zetsu said when he appeared crawling up from the ground.
"Yea?" Naruto replied looking down at Zetsu who was only half way above ground.
"Kakuzu want to remind you that some of the leaf ninja have a bounty on their head," Zetsu replied.
"Oooo…. Really? Who?" Naruto said sounding surprised raising his eyebrows.
"I'm not sure. Look at the Bingo book," Zetsu said.
"Ha-ha, well if Kakuzu wants the bounty he can get it him self," Naruto laughed.
"Fine," Zetsu started "but look at the Bingo book and try to analyze the ones who have a bounty to give Kakuzu and Hidan some Intel on them. Alright?" Zetsu said as he started to go back into the ground.
"Yes sir." Naruto said "how much longer?"
"3 hours," Zetsu finished as he went into the ground.
Naruto smiled and pulled out the two scrolls and placed them perpendicular to each other on the ground in front of him as he kneeled down. Naruto then made several hand signs then placed his hands on top of each other on the center of the scrolls. When he removed his hands, a black book appeared. He put the to scrolls away and stood up with the book in his hand.
Hmm, so lets see who has a bounty on their head….
Naruto opened the book and started looking for people he knew. He opened the page where he saw Asuma Sarutobi.
35 million ryo? I wonder why Asuma-sensei has such a large bounty?
He flipped the page saw Kakashi Hatake.
Wow…. 45 million ryo? What did Kakashi-sensei due to deserve such a high bounty? Oh yes, isn't he known as the Copy Ninja?
Naruto shook his head and then felt a familiar presence of being watched… he knew exactly what that feeling was…
"Neji, Hinata, if you really want to see what I am looking at… you can just ask you know" Naruto yelled not looking up from his book.
Hmm, just Kakashi-sensei and Asuma-sensei are the only ones with bounties? Wait who is this? Sasori's grandmother has a bounty too? Well, no wonder Sasori has such a talent for puppetry. Naruto laughed to himself.
000
"Neji, Hinata, if you really want to see what I am looking at… you can just ask you know" Naruto yelled not looking up from his book.
"What?!" Neji said.
"How did Naruto know he was being watched?" Hinata said quietly.
"Well he knows we're here. Might as well start," Kakashi said looking down and shaking his head.
The 13 leaf ninja and the 3 sand ninja jumped down from the trees and into the field.
Naruto looked up from his book and saw his enemies had appeared. He shook his head then he the promptly shut his book with one hand and put it away.
"So, you decided to final act?" Naruto said as he eyed his opponents who were walking towards him, so Naruto decided to meet them in the middle.
Kakashi-sensei, Sakura, Hinata, Neji, Tenten, Choji, Ino, Shikamaru, Shino, Kiba with Akamaru of course, Temari and Kankuro, Gai-sensei, Asuma-sensei, Kurenai-sensei and who's… oh that Sasori's grandmother… why is she here? Wait… who's missing? Besides me… oh I know… Naruto thought as he scanned all the familiar faces until he finally met them in the middle of field. Naruto was also going through the information he had on each person. Their skills, weakness and most of all their emotional state.
"Where's Lee?" Naruto asked as he smiled.
"In the hospital," Sakura replied bluntly, "Poisoned by your friend."
Naruto then burst out laughing surprising, placing his hands on his stomach and leaned over. This angered the ninja standing in front of him as they believed he was laughing because Sasori had injured Lee.
"What they hell is your problem?!" Ino yelled shaking her fist.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm not laughing at Lee being injured," Naruto still leaning over and laughing, places his hand up while the other is on his knee trying to balance him self, "I'm laughing at the fact that you think Sasori is my friend," Naruto could barely say because he was laughing so hard.
"Wait…" The old lady in the back said, "Sasori poisoned that kid?"
"Hmm?" Naruto stopped laughing and looked up at the old lady, "Of course, who else would be that talented at making posions? Sasori is the only one able to make poisons that dangerous. I am surprised you were able to make an antidote for that complicated mixture… you were able to make an antidote, right?"
"Of course," Kakashi nodded then pointed at Sakura," Sakura was the one who made the antidote."
"Sakura? Really?" Naruto said. Naruto glanced over at Sakura who stood there glaring at him, "You've become quiet the medical ninja under Tsunade-baa-chan, huh?" Naruto laughed at the thought of Sakura become like Tsunade, then stopped when he realized that she probably had the super human strength that Tsunade had. He winced at the thought of Sakura hitting him, "You probably have the super-human strength, don't you?"
Sakura didn't reply.
"Well," Naruto stood up straight and crossed his arms. He smiled and closed his eyes. Sighing he said " Shikamaru…"
Shikamaru look up at Naruto who was now staring at him with his hand out towards him.
"I am going to need that." Naruto finished as he was still smiling.
"What?" Shikamaru said almost forgetting about the Kiba he was carrying. "Oh this? Well, I'm sorry Naruto, you aren't getting it back."
Naruto lifted his chin and furrowed his eyebrows giving Shikamaru an angry look, then sighed.
Shikamaru then handed the Kiba to Kakashi. Naruto smiled.
"That's right, Kakashi-Sensei. You're a Raiton user aren't you?" Naruto glanced over at Kakashi.
"I'm not your sensei any longer, Naruto." Kakashi snarled.
Naruto chuckled as he dropped his hand, "Guess not."
"We don't have time for talking," Kankuro stated with his hands behind his back on his scrolls.
"Then lets get started," Naruto smiled.
Kakashi reached up and lifted his headband to reveal his sharingan. Kankuro pulled out his scrolls and with a puff of smoke three puppets appeared. Shikamaru knelt down to start his jutsu. Neji and Hinata activated the Byakugan. Everyone else took his or her stances to prepare for a battle.
Naruto looked down to notice a shadow about reach him, but at the last second he was able to jump up and avoid connection. While Naruto was in the air, he made the hand signs Rabbit, Dog, Boar, Ram and Rat.
"Raiton: Kangekiha," Naruto yelled.
Then water came out of his mouth and lighting came out of his fingers. The lighting followed down the water and landed where the ninja were standing but they we able to get out of the way in time.
"You can use water release," Kakashi noticed out loud.
Naruto agreed in a monotone grunt without glancing in Kakashi's direction.
Naruto landed and was about to make the hand signs to another jutsu but Kakashi noticed and rushed at Naruto after completing the hands sign for his signature chidori.
Naruto was able to grab Kakashi's hand that held the chidori and move it so it went just past Naruto's face. While holding on to Kakashi, Naruto kicked his chest sending Kakashi flying backwards.
"Kakashi-Sensei!" Sakura yelled as she saw her sensei fly back.
The moment Naruto landing after kicking Kakashi, he noticed that Kakashi had put the Kiba in the ground where he had been standing.
"Rookie mistake," Naruto mumbled to himself as he ran toward his sword, but before he could reach it Neji, Tenten and Kiba slid in front of it in a line. Naruto glared at them.
Tenten pulled out a scroll. From what Naruto remembered from watching Tenten battle Temari in the Chunin Exam, Tenten was a weapons user who pulled her weapons out from scrolls by summoning. When Naruto reached Tenten, he kicked the scrolls out of her hand and then used a roundhouse kick to kick her aside knocking her out cold.
Next in front of Naruto was Neji, who was already in his traditional battle stance. Naruto smiled at him.
"Your taijutsu has improved greatly, Naruto," Neji stated as he saw Naruto rush at him.
Naruto made another grunt in reply.
Naruto knew from his battle with Neji in the Chunin exams that Neji could cut off your chakra follow.
I can't allow him to hit me. Naruto though.
Naruto and Neji began fight each other, but to no prevail. Neither one could land a hit on the other until Naruto was able to use Neji's one blind spot and kicked Neji on the back of the head. Using this distraction Naruto was able to kick Neji out of the way. Neji slid on the ground until Tenten caught him.
Naruto shot Kiba a glare that told him to get out of the way.
Kiba didn't respond, but instead he released his Jutsu on Naruto, "Tsuga!" Kiba yelled.
Naruto rolled his eyes and jumped over both Kiba and Akamaru, landing beside his sword.
Naruto laughed and pulled him sword out of the ground. As he tried to walk away he found himself stuck in the same position. When he looked down he found his shadow was connected to Shikamaru. Standing next to Shikamaru was Ino who had her hands out in front of her in a circular fashion.
"Kagemane no Jutsu complete." Shikamaru smirked.
Shit. She's about to use the Mind switch technique. Naruto thought.
"Shintenshin no Jutsu," Ino said.
Suddenly Naruto's body stood completely still. Ino had entered Naruto's mind.
"Now, Choji" Naruto (Ino) yelled.
"Nikudan Sensha," Choji yelled as his body grew and then started to rotated turning him self into a large ball. Ino left Naruto's body and Shikamaru released his Jutsu just before Choji landed his hit on Naruto.
When the dust settled, revealing Naruto who was laying face down on the ground with his Kiba beside him, appearing to be unconscious. Then suddenly the body disappeared in a cloud of smoke, leaving the Kiba in the spot where Naruto was.
"Are you kidding me?" Kiba yelled, "That was a shadow clone?"
"It appears so," Kakashi said walking up to the Kiba.
"We better get going," Temari said after putting away her fan.
Kakashi nodded and the 13 leaf ninja and the 3 sand ninja took off towards the Akatsuki base, after gathering themselves.